Category: Suburban Opinion

  • Bad weather

    PHOTOSBY JEFF GRANIT staff Top, Chris Cimino, meteorologist for NBC News Channel 4, looks to students of the Samsel Upper Elementary School for answers about the weather June 15. Above, fourth-grade students Mackenzie Van Nosdall and Heather Sootkoos, both 10, look at images of Hurricane Katrina damage that Cimino brought with him.

  • Best of the Class of 2006

    Sayreville War Memorial High School Valedictorian: Sonal Gandhi Age: 17 GPA: 4.63 SAT Score: 2220 College: The College of New Jersey Intended Major: Gandhi is enrolled in TCNJ’s seven-year accelerated medical program and intends to become a doctor. Academic Philosophy: “Being able to balance and prioritize.” Awards: Senior awards were conferred at the high school’s…

  • Lack of courtesy busing puts children at risk

    This is an outcry from Sayreville parents that went unheard. The Board of Education held a meeting on June 5, addressing parents of school-age children regarding the discontinued courtesy busing for Sayreville children in sixth-12th grades. Any child who lives less than 2.5 miles from the middle and high schools on Washington Road will have…

  • Grateful for success of lemonade-stand fundraiser

    I would like to thank all the nice people who stopped by my home on June 10 and made donations to Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation for Pediatric Cancer Research (www.alexslemonade.org). My stand was one of more than 1,000 lemonade stands across the United States that weekend. Thank you to Middlesex County Vocational and Technical High…

  • Courtesy busing matter another sign of the times

    The loss of courtesy busing in any community is one of the harder realities of today’s educational funding system. Just as other school districts have done in the recent past, Sayreville has eliminated courtesy busing for the next school year. The move saves money but inconveniences hundreds, and many are understandably angered and concerned. The…

  • Restore funding to Rutgers, other state universities

    As both a proud alumnus and current employee of Rutgers University, I am concerned over the proposed budget cuts to New Jersey’s higher-education institutions. Higher education should be viewed as a serious investment in New Jersey’s future, not merely an expense to be dealt with at budget time. For every $1 that New Jersey invests…

  • Robert W. Murphy Mr. Murphy, 35, of Union Beach, formerly of Old Bridge, died June 4 in Little Silver. His father, Robert H. Murphy, died in 1985. Surviving are a son, Robert T. Murphy; a daughter, Allison Murphy; his mother and stepfather, Barbara and Terry of Union Beach; his grandparents, Maurice and Irene Crowe Murphy…

  • Self-service gas pumps: the horror, the horror!

    Greg Bean Coda I got a real kick out of the collective wailing and gnashing of teeth among many of my fellow Nanny Staters when Gov. Jon Corzine recently proposed allowing us to pump our own gas as a way of reducing prices. New Jersey – which first made self-service fuel pumping illegal in 1949…

  • On Campus

    Brian Jennings, son of Ginny and Rich Jennings of Old Bridge, has been awarded a bachelor of science degree in civil engineering from Lafayette College, Easton, Pa., where he was named to the dean’s list for the spring semester. He also was the recipient of the Lehigh Valley Section of the American Society of Civil…